The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 147
102 GOLD AND SILVER WORK. manifested itself in an extraordinary degree from that time. For example,it was calculated that under Leo III., who occupied the pontifical chairfrom 795 to 816, the weight of plate given by the Pope to enrich thechurches amounted to no less than 1,075 pounds of gold and… … Fig. 87.—The Sword of Charlemange. Preserved in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna. To that period belongs the famous gold altar of the basilica of St.Ambrose of Milan, executed in 835, by order of Archbishop Angilbert, byYolvinius, w^hich has come down to our time in spite of its immense…
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